The sun., 1887-11-17

They Will Go to Joli It To-Day-Their Com
ments on the Tragedy just Concluded.

They Will Go to Joliet o-Day-Their Com
ments on the Tragedy just Concluded.
CHICAGO. Nov. 1l.-Flelden and Schwab,
the two anarchists whose sentences were
commuted by Gov. Oglesby to life imprison-
ment, were not taken down to the peniten-
tiary at Joliet to-day as expected, though
the necessary nlittinus have arrived from
Springfield. The sheriff had no men to spare
to-day to go with them, and it was thought
inadvisable to take them on the noon train,
as SO dong might have resulted in the
gathering of dangerous crowds on the
streets, and perhaps violence. The sheriff
states, however, that the two men will be
taken down to the penitentiary on the train
tomorrow. just after the execution
reporter visited Sam Fielden and Michael
Schwab They had been assigned to cells
in the second tier almost facing the door
which leads from the cage into the Jail Office.
Flelden was pacing up and down his cell,
with his hands clasped behind him and his
bushv beard pressed down close to his chest
Now and then he would stop and cast
furuive glance at the f1eeting figures of re-
porters and deputy sheriffs in and out of the
door below. The reporter accosted him
witn
"Mr. Fielden, it is all over"
Yes. it is all over" came the response in
cultural, half-choking tone OF voice. accom-,
panied by sad snake OF tne heao. IL Is all
over.
And that was all he would say. just to
the left of Fielden's cell Michael Sohwab was
confined. He sat on his couch with his head
buried in his hands When the reporter ap-
peared at the IRON grated door Schwab
looked up, and responsive to the scribes
greeting, said:
Good day. Yes" no continued in his native
tongue Il heard the trap fall and knew at once
the end had come. They are dead men now,
and what say cannot influence their fates or
conciliate mine; but say, and with conscious
ness that its victims are under the same roof
with me- that the blind prejudice of an unholy
conspiracy has murdered five men as innocent
of the charge which they were convicted as a
babe unborn. But it Is done and cannot be un-
done. Sples Engel, Parsons Fischer and Lingg
were no more connected with the death Of
Matthias J. Degan than you are. IL Is useless
to protest the innocence of the men caught in
the drag net Of the states attorney and Capt.
Setback. I expect to spent the rest of my
natural life in prison. and am virtually dead to
the world, but the crime for which we suffer will
some dav be cleared up 1t may come in time to
save Fielden and 1, but the men who forfeited
their lives to-day will ever stand as stain on
the escutcheon of the country.
"Mr Schwab," asked the reporter, ARE you
satisfied with the work Of your counsel in your
behalf2"
Yes, and no. believe that had the proper
method been pursued we would have had sepa-
rate trials, and no seven jurIes ever impaneed
would have found us all even under the evidence
conjured up, guilty of the crimes alleged. We
had eminent counsel, 1t is true, but the damage
they took hold of the case. If we had had the
money which later poured in, and could have
used 1t at the outset. not o man OF us would nave
been held under any OF the indictments filed.
Capt. Black has worked hard, but he has been
handicapped.